Events

Tracing the struggle of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale to gain freedom from French colonial rule as seen through the eyes of Ali from his start as a petty thief to his rise to prominence ...

 BUY TICKETS Director Cheikh Djemai uncovers and interviews scores of former associates of Frantz Fanon, a psychiatrist, philosopher and political leader. He became a spokesman for the Algerian revol...

 Watch DANCING THE TWIST IN BAMAKO at Film Forum this February. Screenings will be followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Robert GuédiguianMali, 1962. The youth of Bamako dance the twist to rock and roll m...

Strahinja and his wife Ababuo left Ghana with a dream of a better life in Europe. Instead of reaching the western part of the continent, they were deported back to Serbia. Strahinja has started to bu...

Mali, 1962. The youth of Bamako dance the twist to rock and roll music newly imported from the West and dream of political renewal. Samba, a young socialist, falls for spirited Lara during one of his...

Watch Rokhaya Diallo's Acting While Black at Columbia Univeristy this month!ADIFF NYC 2022 WINNER for BEST FILM DIRECTED BY WOMAN OF COLORActing while black, blackness on French screens is a punchy d...

Special Holiday Event Nutcracker Dream lands in downtown White Plains at KOI Creative Event Space, 169 Mamaroneck Avenue, 2nd FloorVisions of Sugar Plums are dancing in your head and into downtown Wh...

Haingo, a young single mother from Madagascar, struggles to pay the school fees of her six-year old daughter. A dance company proposes her a contract for a trial period. Haingo grabs this chance, lea...

During the Covid pandemic, two lost souls find themselves confined together. Fettah is a music teacher locked up forever in his blindness, and Habiba is his student, a young lady fleeing the obscuran...

They were called fahavalo - enemies - because they rebelled in 1947 against French colonial authorities in Madagascar.Today, filmmaker Marie-Clémence Andri- amonta Paes takes us where the events took...

The Desert Rocker is an intimate, witty and profound portrait of the extraordinary Hasna El Becharia, a pioneer Gnawa artist. The first musician to break through the social barrier of this culture, s...

Mali, 1962. The youth of Bamako dance the twist to rock and roll music newly imported from the West and dream of political renewal. Samba, a young socialist, falls for spirited Lara during one of his...

In West Africa during the late 17th century, King Adanggaman leads a war against his neighboring tribes, ordering his soldiers to torch enemy villages, kill the elderly and capture the healthy tribes...

Imagine an America where kids have even more chance for success, thanks to their experiences in dual language and community-based heritage language schools. Where businesses gain an edge globally bec...

Join us for one of our mini-camp sessions!Bonjour NY offers fun-filled camps during school breaks and holidays! Our mini-camps provide a FUN, ENGAGING, and SAFE place for children to spend their day....

Thinking Space in Cinema and LiteraturePenser l’espace dans le cinéma et la littératureDuring this international colloquium, participants will be exploring the question of the relations between cinem...

French Musicians with great talent and a big heart perform Piazzolla, Shostakovitch, Milhaud, Tchiakovsky for Entraide Francaise, Inc. and STAFE Project. Featuring Virgil Boutellis-Taft, violin, Elsa...

The ventures of Debussy and Ravel into impressionism and the responsive compositional output from Les Six produced a flowering of innovative and compelling wind music. The clarinet chapter of 20th c...

Institute of French Studies Conference Organized by Jessica Pearson (Macalester College) and Herrick Chapman (NYU)This conference will explore the process of French decolonization in the twentieth ce...

Come learn about our graduate programs in French, from the MA in French Studies and teacher certification to the new MA and certificate programs in Professional French translation! Attendees will rec...